The Ultimate Home Office Storage Solutions Quiz

For those who work from home, one of the major problems is organizing your storage needs. If you are a naturally well-organized person, that's great -- but the rest of us need some good ideas. Check out this quiz to see how you can improve your storage organizing abilities.

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Question 1 of 20

Why be organized?

It will make you appear busy.

It will help you get things done on time.

Being organized will help you get things done on time.

A home business is disorganized by definition.

Question 2 of 20

What should you do about the never-ending flow of incoming paper?

Keep the papers together until you have time to check them.

Throw out bills and file the rest.

File the papers well.

File things well so you can easily access any particular piece of paper you need.

Question 3 of 20

Should you organize bills in any particular way?

Just pay them when you get a chance.

Separate them into categories according to urgency.

If you don't pay bills on receipt, but wait to pay them closer to the due date, catalogue them according to urgency.

Place the bills for which reminders are sent at the bottom of the pile.

Question 4 of 20

If you find you need more storage space, what would be an economical solution?

Buy inexpensive storage boxes.

Readily available and inexpensive storage boxes are readily available at stationery shops and home improvement stores.

Buy more drawers.

Dump as much paperwork as you can in a large box.

Question 5 of 20

Would you use jewelry boxes?

No, they would attract attention of burglars

Not really, people may get the wrong idea about the business.

Yes, they look good and can be easily stacked.

Why not? They stack easily and look good.

Question 6 of 20

Is it a good idea to mark the storage boxes clearly?

Why spoil the fun of discovering where stuff is?

It would make it easier to find stuff.

Marking the boxes would make finding things easier.

Don't ruin a good box by writing on it!

Question 7 of 20

Does a normal jumble of cords present a problem?

A jumble of cords makes a positive aesthetic statement.

Cords work better when they are jumbled together.

Unplugging a specific appliance can be a problem.

It can be if you need to unplug one of the appliances.

Question 8 of 20

What is the most efficient way of identifying the cord of a particular appliance?

Label them.

Add a label each cord near the plug.

Buy different colored chords.

Insert colored pins in the cords.

Question 9 of 20

If you were given four baskets, how could you use them to make life easier in your home office?

Use one for different days of the week.

Divide mail into bills, correspondence, outgoing and junk.

You could divide your mail into four categories: bills, correspondence, outgoing mail and junk mail.

Use one for coffee cups, one for cookies, one for tissues and the fourth for the telephone.

Question 10 of 20

Once you have completely finished with paperwork containing personal information, what should you do with it?

Mail it to a fictitious address and it will get lost in the system.

Strike out relevant information with a black marker and recycle it.

Shredding is fun.

Because it's not safe to simply throw it away, you should shred it.

Question 11 of 20

How can you efficiently cut down on piles of paper?

Divide the big pile into a number of smaller piles.

Cut out the relevant information from the paper and discard the rest.

Go paperless.

Go paperless. Get your bills and faxes on line and don't print anything you don't need to.

Question 12 of 20

Assuming you save your documents as electronic data, is it safe enough to store that data only on you home computer?

A Macintosh is completely reliable.

A computer can breakdown or be hacked.

A computer can be hacked into, stolen or suffer mechanical failure, it is best to back your data up on an external device.

You are safe as long as you use a safe browser.

Question 13 of 20

What is the most readily accessible and cost-efficient backup?

external hard drive

An external hard drive is an inexpensive and portable solution.

a laptop computer

a second hard drive in the computer

Question 14 of 20

How can you use the walls to get organized?

Nail all your pieces of paper to different sections of the wall.

Turn the walls into chalkboards and write all you need on them.

You can paint them with chalkboard paint and write everything you need all over the walls.

Knock holes in the wall to act as cubby-holes.

Question 15 of 20

Do you think the previous solution was a really good one?

Sure, anyone coming into your office will immediately know all there is to know about your business.

Only if you have all four walls the same color.

Providing you love grey or green, it could work.

Only if you want to work in a gray or green environment!

Question 16 of 20

Is there any real advantage to the chalkboard idea?

Chalkboards return you to your school days and memories of long-lost discipline.